iPhone 3G S Speed Tests

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Sure, it's fast, but just how fast? We put the new iPhone to the test.

By Scott Lowe

Yesterday we published our official review of the iPhone 3G S, Apple's latest smartphone. From our time with the iPhone 3G S, we found that Apple's claims about the device being the "fastest, most powerful iPhone yet" were, in fact, true, and that the new model was remarkably faster than its predecessor, the iPhone 3G, in just about every area. But just how fast was the iPhone 3G S compared to the iPhone 3G? We clocked the iPhone 3G S' performance during a number of different functions and applications and compared them to the iPhone 3G, check out the results below.

Games

The iPhone 3G S features a number of under-the-hood improvements to make processing data faster and more efficient, including 25 percent more processing power and double the RAM. While the improved CPU and RAM makes the iPhone 3G S a comprehensively quicker device, Apple also added a little extra juice to the device's graphical processing through the inclusion of OpenGL ES 2.0. We tested how efficiently the iPhone 3G S worked with a number of popular titles for the platform, including Peggle, Need for Speed Undercover, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2010.